Norway

News about Norway, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Jun. 20, 2015

Norwegian women's soccer team collaborates with NRK, country's national television broadcaster, for satirical online video poking fun at stereotypes about female soccer players. MORE

Jun. 14, 2015

David Gelles Revalued column observes that Norway's decision to rid its $890 billion pension fund of stakes in coal companies signals tipping point in green divestment movement that began in 2011; cites data indicating that divestment campaigns have little impact on a company's investor base, share price or creditworthiness; argues that they nonetheless have shaming value, potentially making it more difficult for companies to recruit, influence policy, or raise capital. MORE

Jun. 6, 2015

Norway's $890 billion pension fund will sell off many of its investments in coal, making it largest institution to join growing movement to divest from some fossil fuel stocks; move is likely to add momentum to growing global phenomenon that, while having few economic implications for companies, is laying groundwork for cultural and political discussion around climate change and fossil fuels. MORE

May. 26, 2015

More than 100 military aircraft from United States, Britain, Germany, France, Finland and Sweden participate in Arctic Challence Exercise off coast of Norway following increase in tensions in area due to crisis in Ukraine. MORE

May. 5, 2015

Norwegian researcher Pal-Orjan Johansen is pushing for legalization of psychedelic drug LSD, as well as MDMA and psilocybin, substances banned in many countries around world; EmmaSofia, advocacy group Johansen formed with his wife Teri Krebs, has gained surprising amount of support in drug-averse nation, demonstrating momentum of growing effort to revise drug policies of 1970s. MORE

Apr. 25, 2015

Russian Deputy Prime Min Dmitri O Rogozin, who is banned from traveling to most of Europe due to Russia's widely condemned involvement in Ukrainian crisis, sparks diplomatic controversy by stopping in Norway's Svalbard archipelago on way to meeting of Arctic Council on Baffin Island, Canada; Russia's annexation of Crimea is brought up several times at meeting, but some officials say political issues should not detract from council's attempts to address effects of climate change. MORE

Apr. 5, 2015

Town of Frederikstad, Norway, is grappling with question of why so many of its youth have made their way to Syria to join Islamic State and other militant groups; interviews with families of at least eight young men from single neighborhood in town reveal that prime motivator was popular local soccer player Abdullah Chaib, who was first to leave for Syria; while other regions of Europe have struggled with similar questions, Frederikstad case is notable because of diversity of backgrounds and economic situations of the youth. MORE

Apr. 2, 2015

Norway is reverting to Cold War mode as Russia ramps up military activity along NATO's northern flank; routinely scrambles F-16 fighters from its military base in Bodo to intercept, photograph and monitor steadily increasing numbers of Russian warplanes off Norwegian coast; Norwegian officials fear that Russia's display of military muscle toward a NATO member could trigger inadvertent escalation. MORE

Mar. 29, 2015

Jessica Benko article examines philosophy and practice behind Norway's corrections system, and describes workings of Halden Fengsel, which is often called world's most humane maximum-security prison. MORE

Dec. 31, 2014

Statoil, Norway's big state-controlled oil company, is coming under pressure for environmental damage created by oil and gas it produces; activism goes further than worries over global warming to company's large presence in Norwegian society; Statoil has long been source of affluence as well as national pride, however. MORE

Sep. 28, 2014

Chinese real estate tycoon Huang Nubo is looking to buy land in Norway, creating speculation about moves by China to gain a permanent foothold in the Arctic; region is growing in economic significance as global warming opens new and cheaper shipping routes from Asia; also Arctic region holds around 13 percent of the world's undiscovered oil and 30 percent of its natural gas, reserves that have been untouched because of difficulty and high cost of their development. MORE

Sep. 21, 2014

Op-Ed article by Hugh Eakin, senior editor at The New York Review of Books, contrasts approaches of Sweden and Norway to Syrian refugee crisis; notes Sweden has open-door policy, while Norway is not encouraging asylum-seekers, and they have come to embody two poles in debate over how to help refugees in the Middle East. MORE

Sep. 21, 2014

Reif Larsen travel article on taking slow cruise up the Norwegian coast and experiencing the land of the midnight sun with his family. MORE

Aug. 1, 2014

Norway calls off terrorism alert, saying attack by a militant Islamist group with combat training in Syria is no longer seen as imminent. MORE

Jul. 25, 2014

Norway’s intelligence service says it has received information about an imminent 'concrete threat' against Norway from people with links to Islamic fighters in Syria. MORE

Jul. 10, 2014

Longyearbyen Journal: unemployment and homelessness are illegal in northern Norwegian town Longyearbyen in frigid Svalbard territory; all residents must have fixed address and either a job or sufficient means to support themselves, rule that ensures that nobody freezes to death in a place that is closer to the North Pole than to capital Oslo; circumstances have made it closest thing to crime-free society as possible. MORE

Jul. 6, 2014

Geraldine Fabrikant travel article traces path, through Oslo and beyond, that artist Edvard Munch took after checking himself into a nerve clinic in Copenhagen; observes that his homes and studios provide a clear narrative for his paintings, both dark and verdant. MORE

Jun. 11, 2014

Barentsburg Journal; Arctic town of Barentsburg, Norway, has long been attraction for out-of-work Ukrainians seeking job with state-owned Russian company Arctic Coal Trust there; company, in effort to reduce its reliance on Moscow, is pushing to develop town as tourist destination. MORE

May. 31, 2014

Norway's Coast Guard tows away Greenpeace ship that tried to block a Norwegian company's rig from drilling the world's most northerly oil well in the Barents Sea. MORE

May. 8, 2014

Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader in exile, begins visit to Norway to commemorate the Nobel Peace Prize he received there 25 years earlier; trip is being overshadowed, however, by an uproar over Norwegian government’s refusal to meet with him in deference to an increasingly assertive China, which considers the Dalai Lama an unrepentant separatist. MORE

Apr. 27, 2014

Tiny island of Tjuvholmen is fast becoming most-talked-about area in Norwegian capital of Oslo, thanks to its rising status as thriving arts district. MORE

Apr. 14, 2014

Rjukan Journal; three giant computer-controlled mirrors on a mountain reflect sunlight onto small Norwegian town of Rjukan in winter; some residents say project is waste of money. MORE

Mar. 1, 2014

Norway's giant oil fund says it earned 15.9 percent, or about $115 billion, on its investments in 2013, profiting from big bets on American and European stocks that offset losses in government bonds across globe. MORE

Feb. 8, 2014

Saturday Profile of Olav Thon, Norwegian billionaire who supports the political right and is critical of nation's welfare system. MORE

Jan. 24, 2014

Increased success of anti-immigration Progress Party has raised eyebrows in Norway even as country is growing more concerned over influx of immigrants; debate over immigrants, including Muslims, and their effect on both national identity and social welfare system has unsettled country that has long prided itself on its liberal sensibilities. MORE

Nov. 5, 2013

Norwegian police say they have arrested a knife-wielding man who hijacked a bus in western Norway and killed three people on board, including the bus driver. MORE

Nov. 2, 2013

Norway's public broadcaster NRK is set to broadcast 12 hours of material about knitting, continuing history of quirky programming. MORE

Oct. 19, 2013

Norwegian investigators are questioning family and friends of Somali immigrant Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow, who grew up in Norway, in effort to determine whether he was one of four attackers caught on surveillance cameras during rampage at Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya MORE

Oct. 11, 2013

Norwegian police say they are investigating whether Norwegian citizen of Somali origin was involved in deadly siege of Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, in late September. MORE

Oct. 4, 2013

Incoming leaders of Norway’s new government say they will end a 32-year ban on professional boxing in the country. MORE

Oct. 1, 2013

Erna Solberg, leader of Norway's Conservative Party, says that she is forming a right-wing minority government with the anti-immigration Progress Party. MORE

Sep. 11, 2013

Erna Solberg, Norway's incoming conservative prime minister, is preparing for coalition talks with Progress Party, anti-immigrant party poised to enter government for first time; fact that party may secure majority in Parliament has caused unease for some because Anders Behring Breivik, far-right militant who massacred 77 people in 2011, was once among party’s members. MORE

Sep. 10, 2013

Norwegian voters oust their center-left government, paving the way for conservative leader Erna Solnberg to assemble a governing coalition that may include an anti-immigration party; Solnberg will be Norway's first conservative leader since 1990, and her victory comes a little more than two years after a far-right, anti-immigrant militant killed 77 people. MORE

Aug. 8, 2013

University of Oslo says it has rejected an admissions application from Anders Behring Breivik, man serving 21-year prison sentence for killing 77 people in bomb and gun massacres; prison officials say Breivik could study in his cell if admitted by a university. MORE

Jun. 15, 2013

Norway's Parliament votes overwhelmingly to conscript women into its armed forces, becoming the first European and first NATO country to make military service compulsory for both men and women. MORE

Apr. 4, 2013

Five schools in western Norway have rescheduled midterm exams to allow students to go to Justin Bieber concerts in Oslo. MORE

Mar. 3, 2013

Karl Ove Knausgaard article describes stark beauty of Arctic northern lights that he documented while visiting small towns in far north of Norway. MORE

Feb. 20, 2013

Oslo Journal; National Firewood Night, 2-hour TV program about drying, stacking and burning firewood, has aroused passions in Norway, where 1.2 million households have fireplaces or wood stoves. MORE

Feb. 15, 2013

Norwegian court convicts Sadi Bugingo, Rwandan man living in Norway, for participating in 1994 genocide in Rwanda and sentences him to 21 years in prison. MORE

Jan. 28, 2013

Deadly siege in Algeria, which led to deaths of four employees of Norway's Statoil company, stirs up debate over how far Norway's petroleum companies should go in hunt for resources and profits; many Norwegians are passing up traditional jobs to become mechanics and engineers to enter petroleum industry not just in Norway but in other oil-rich and often unstable countries around the globe. MORE

Jan. 23, 2013

Truck containing some 27 tons of cheese, highly flammable because of its fat content, catches fire and closes 1.9-mile tunnel near Narvik, Norway, for six days; officials say tunnel will be closed for repairs for at least an additional week. MORE

Nov. 10, 2012

Anders Behring Breivik, Norwegian extremist serving 21-year sentence for 2011 murders of 77 people, is discontented with prison life, including strip searches, isolation and being issued a pen that made his hand cramp. MORE

Oct. 10, 2012

Norway's Foreign Ministry expels a Sudanese diplomat, accusing him of spying on Sudanese refugees in Norway. MORE

Aug. 25, 2012

Norwegian extremist Anders Behring Breivik is sentenced to 21 years in prison, following his conviction for killing 77 people in 2011 in a horrific bombing and shooting attack; sentence is the maximum available under Norwegian law. MORE

Aug. 17, 2012

Norway’s police chief Oeystein Maeland resigns, days after an independent commission found that the police could have prevented the far-right militant Anders Behring Breivik from killing 77 people in a bombing in Oslo and a massacre at a youth summer camp in 2011. MORE

Aug. 14, 2012

Independent inquest into the mass killings in Norway in July 2011 by a fanatical anti-Muslim extremist sharply rebukes the country's police and intelligence services; says they could have averted or at least disrupted his plot to bomb downtown Oslo and finds the police failed in their duty to protect the camp where 69 people, most of them teenagers, were killed by Anders Behring Breivik. MORE

Jul. 10, 2012

Norwegian government, minutes before the country's oil industry planned to lock out thousands of striking workers, steps in and orders offshore workers back to work, sending the dispute to binding arbitration. MORE

Jul. 7, 2012

Verlyn Klinkenborg Editorial Observer praises the graceful precision of forklift operators who load cargo in the port city of Trondheim, Norway. MORE

Jul. 1, 2012

Anand Giridharadas travel article on an amphibious trip through Norway’s fjords, searching for the harsh old country of the Vikings in a land of $20 burgers and high-end hotels. MORE

Jun. 23, 2012

Trial of Anders Behring Breivik ends with defense lawyers insisting that he should be sentenced to prison and prosecutors arguing that he was mentally ill and thus not criminally responsible; experts say they are not aware of any previous case in Norwegian legal history in which prosecutors had called for an insanity verdict and defense lawyers had advocated conviction; if the court finds that Breivik was sane when he killed 77 people last year, he will face a maximum of 21 years in prison. MORE

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